An alarming number of youth worldwide are victims of commercial sexual exploitation, particularly sex trafficking. Normative developmental processes and motivations across the adolescent period-the age when youth are at greatest risk for trafficking-combined with their history, make them highly likely to be reluctant to disclose their exploitation to police, who often encounter victims because they are suspected of delinquency and crime and who interrogate the victims as suspects. Little scientific and policy attention has been devoted to understanding how to question these victims in a way that reduces their disclosure reluctance and increases their provision of legally relevant information. In the current review, we describe research concerning trafficking victims' histories and exploitative experiences, juvenile suspects' and victims' encounters with the legal system, and best-practice forensic interviewing approaches to elicit disclosures from child victims. We highlight the implications of these areas for understanding the dynamics between how police encounter and interact with adolescent trafficking victims and whether and how the victims disclose trafficking details during these interactions. We close with an agenda for research to test interviewing methods for suspected victims of sex trafficking and with policy and practice recommendations for interviewers.

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克服性贩运青少年受害者不愿披露信息的心理：研究、政策和实践的新方向。


全球有数量惊人的青少年成为商业性剥削、特别是性贩运的受害者。青少年时期的规范发展过程和动机（青少年面临最大贩运风险的年龄）与他们的历史相结合，使他们极有可能不愿意向警察透露他们的剥削情况，而警察经常遇到受害者，因为他们被怀疑有犯罪行为和犯罪以及将受害者作为嫌疑人进行审讯的人。很少有科学和政策关注去了解如何询问这些受害者，以减少他们不愿意披露信息并增加他们提供法律相关信息的机会。在当前的审查中，我们描述了有关贩运受害者的历史和剥削经历、青少年嫌疑人和受害者与法律制度的接触以及从儿童受害者那里获取信息的最佳实践法医访谈方法的研究。我们强调这些领域对于理解警察如何与青少年贩运受害者接触和互动以及受害者在这些互动过程中是否以及如何披露贩运细节之间的动态的影响。最后，我们提出了一项研究议程，以测试对性贩运嫌疑受害者的访谈方法，并向访谈者提出政策和实践建议。